Metroid-Database.com presents the Make-a-Metroid contest!

infinitysend

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infinitysend: 2009-12-15 01:17:19 am

infinitysend: 2009-12-15 01:15:57 am

2009-11-02 08:34:59 pm

MDb Admin

Hello everyone,
Infinity's End here from the Metroid Database, the longest running Metroid-dedicated site on the net.
We had our 13th anniversary recently, and starting today, we have unveiled our new "Make-a-Metroid" Contest, where we are asking participants to create a Metroid out of anything they want.
The contest lasts for 2 months and all the entries are due by Dec. 31, 2009.

We are offering a variety of prizes:

1st place Prize:
* Metroid Prime Trilogy for Wii
* $50 Gift Card to Amazon.com
* Metroid Prime Trilogy official poster
* Signed 11x17 Metroid Artwork Print by Ivan Flores
* Metroid Metal "Varia Suite" album Signed by Stemage
* 2 Official Metroid Metal Stickers

2nd place prize:
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for Wii
* Metroid Prime 3 T-Shirt (black, Size L)
* Samus Wall Sticker
* Signed 11x17 Metroid Artwork Print by Ivan Flores
* Metroid Metal "Varia Suite" album Signed by Stemage
* 2 Official Metroid Metal Stickers

3rd place prize:
* Metroid Classic Series for GBA
* Metroid Prime 3 T-Shirt (white, Size L)
* Signed 11x17 Metroid Artwork Print by Ivan Flores
* Metroid Metal "Varia Suite" album Signed by Stemage
* 2 Official Metroid Metal Stickers

We are trying to get as many people as we can to participate.
The official contest page can be viewed here
Thanks for all your support, and please tell everyone you know to come to the site and participate in our contest! We really appreciate it.

Best regards,
--Ryan Barrett, aka Infinity's End
c/o Metroid Database, http://www.metroid-database.com

Thread title:

Hello everyone,
Infinity's End here from the Metroid Database, the longest running Metroid-dedicated site on the net.
We had our 13th anniversary recently, and starting today, we have unveiled our new "Make-a-Metroid" Contest, where we are asking participants to create a Metroid out of anything they want.
The contest lasts for 2 months and all the entries are due by Dec. 31, 2009.

We are offering a variety of prizes:

1st place Prize:
    * Metroid Prime Trilogy for Wii
    * $50 Gift Card to Amazon.com
    * Metroid Prime Trilogy official poster
    * Signed 11x17 Metroid Artwork Print by Ivan Flores
    * Metroid Metal "Varia Suite" album Signed by Stemage
    * 2 Official Metroid Metal Stickers

2nd place prize:
    * Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for Wii
    * Metroid Prime 3 T-Shirt (black, Size L)
    * Samus Wall Sticker
    * Signed 11x17 Metroid Artwork Print by Ivan Flores
    * Metroid Metal "Varia Suite" album Signed by Stemage
    * 2 Official Metroid Metal Stickers

3rd place prize:
    * Metroid Classic Series for GBA
    * Metroid Prime 3 T-Shirt (white, Size L)
    * Signed 11x17 Metroid Artwork Print by Ivan Flores
    * Metroid Metal "Varia Suite" album Signed by Stemage
    * 2 Official Metroid Metal Stickers

We are trying to get as many people as we can to participate.
The official contest page can be viewed [url=http://www.metroid-database.com/?g=features&p=contest]here[/url]
Thanks for all your support, and please tell everyone you know to come to the site and participate in our contest!  We really appreciate it.

Best regards,
--Ryan Barrett, aka Infinity's End
c/o Metroid Database, [url=http://www.metroid-database.com]http://www.metroid-database.com[/url]

Toozin

2009-11-03 10:25:06 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

I can't decide if this is spam or not.

Quietus

2009-11-03 10:50:24 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

While it doesn't appear to be spam, and seems legitimate enough, I can't see that it would do any harm to lock it, as it seems pretty much read-only.

nate

2009-11-03 11:30:19 am

toozin: i gave the ok for this already.

Toozin

2009-11-03 11:48:38 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

THANKS FOR TELLING THE REST OF US.

Opium

2009-11-03 11:56:00 am

I didn't think it was spam because MDB is awesome !

ryu

2009-11-03 11:56:23 am

Quote from Toozin:

THANKS FOR TELLING THE REST OF US.

YEAH THAT FUCKING DICTATOR

Okay, seriously. I would have entered if you guys were shipping to the EU, but whatever.

infinitysend

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infinitysend: 2009-11-03 09:04:33 pm

2009-11-03 09:01:12 pm

MDb Admin

Yeah, thanks nate for allowing me to post this up.
We can't ship to anywhere but the US because shipping costs are completely insane, and I'm basically paying for most of this out of my own pocket. It's just a hassle, really. You're still very much invited to enter, you just couldn't get any prizes if there was a chance of you being in the top 3. Sorry!

Crys

2009-11-05 07:33:54 pm

Green-Kirby, ROAR!

You know you could just send the money via paypall for anyone outside the US so they can go buy the shit instead. :/

infinitysend

2009-11-05 08:36:30 pm

MDb Admin

Quote from Crys:

You know you could just send the money via paypall for anyone outside the US so they can go buy the shit instead. :/

...or not. o_O

Opium

2009-11-05 09:07:35 pm

If he already has the prizes then sending a cash prize via paypal would put him back.

Quietus

2009-11-06 04:17:26 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

It sounds like the competition is 'something for nothing' to me, so nobody should really have grounds to grumble. I don't think Ryu's gripe was in any way serious, and was a minor grumble at best.

ryu

2009-11-06 05:30:48 am

Well, a chance on a free US version of Trilogy would be neat. I want that alu case.

But it's really not that much a problem, like Quietus said.

Gamma_Metroid

2009-11-06 09:24:23 am

Quote from infinitysend:

Hello everyone,
Infinity's End here from the Metroid Database, the longest running Metroid-dedicated site on the net.
We had our 13th anniversary recently[...]

Way to rub it in, man.

Anyway, this contest sounds pretty cool. I'd like to see what people do. By the way, who will be judging?

infinitysend

2009-11-06 11:25:49 pm

MDb Admin

The 3 of us that make up the MDb staff will be judging. We may have our board mod help as well.

infinitysend

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infinitysend: 2009-12-14 09:54:48 pm

2009-12-14 09:53:57 pm

MDb Admin

Just wanted to give this thread a little bump and let you guys know that we have just added some new prizes to the contest: 3 Metroid Metal albums and stickers! So be sure to enter the contest! We haven't gotten too many entries as of late, so the chances are looking REALLY good right now...

TheGreenManalishi

2009-12-15 11:37:24 am

Quote from infinitysend:

3 Metroid Metal albums and stickers!

Are you trying to make me cry?

Opium

2009-12-26 09:29:00 pm

I finally finished my super cool metroid that I made out of plastic beads. Total amount of time it took was about 6 hours. It would have been less, except for the fact that I dropped it when I was about 3/4 of the way done and it came almost completely apart so I basically had to start over.
Taking a photo of it, however, is proving to be quite difficult. My roomie and I can't figure out how to disable the flash! The beads are shiny, so the flash reflects off of it and makes the whole thing look white. I took pics of it with my phone, but the image quality is so poor that you can't see the individual beads and it just looks like crap. I'm so frustrated at this point that I think I'm just gonna give up.

Gamma_Metroid

2009-12-28 12:10:07 pm

Just hold your finger in front of it.

Opium

2010-01-04 08:55:13 am

The contest is over, see the winners here:

http://metroid-database.com/?g=features&p=contest

Mine is the 'Beadtroid' and seriously was nowhere as cool as the three winners. This was a fun contest, I hope there's another one sometime.

aigamerDS

2010-01-04 02:24:06 pm

I know this contest is already over, but I still have some question. Does 3D printing count?

Opium

2010-01-04 02:31:23 pm

I'm not entirely sure what '3D printing' is, but the rules basically said it could not be artwork or rendering, it had to be an actual physical 3D object.

aigamerDS

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aigamerDS: 2010-01-04 02:50:02 pm

2010-01-04 02:49:03 pm

3D printer look something like this.

Basically, it turns 3D model into physical 3D object. The reason why I ask because I don't see any rules against it. Drewseph used 3D printer to print puzzle.

Opium

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Opium: 2010-01-04 03:08:42 pm

2010-01-04 03:06:25 pm

That's amazing. I bet that thing costs $50K easily.

I bet you could have submitted something like that into the contest, but I don't think it would have been a good strategy for impressing the judges. The impressive thing would be the technology used, and not the artistry.

WOW look at this guy rigging a regular inkjet printer to do 3D printing:

aigamerDS

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aigamerDS: 2010-01-04 03:17:17 pm

2010-01-04 03:08:26 pm

In case you want, here's Drewseph's printer.

Imagine if Drewseph entered this contest.